Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

19.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

21.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

23.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

25.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

26.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

27.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

28.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

29.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

30.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

31.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

32.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

34.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

35.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

36.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

37.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

38.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

39.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

40.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

42.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

44.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

45.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

46.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

47.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

48.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

49.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

50.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian